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The Deadly Arithmetic of Right-Wing Extremism: 2015–2025
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The Deadly Arithmetic of Right-Wing Extremism: 2015–2025
Republicans Exploit Kirk’s Death While Ignoring a Decade of Far-Right Carnage
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September 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Deadly Arithmetic of Right-Wing Extremism: 2015–2025
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"Until a few months ago, the question of America’s cohesion—whether it would stick together—was rarely raised. Yes, there are always simmering secession movements, but they’re always deeply fringe (and usually deeply cringe)." But all that could change:
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Will Trump force America to break up?
He seems determined to try.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Until a few months ago, the question of America’s cohesion—whether it would stick together—was rarely raised. Yes, there are always simmering secession movements, but they’re always deeply fringe (and usually deeply cringe)." But all that could change:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
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Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’
Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism
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June 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
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Donald Trump promised to lower costs.
So what are Republicans in Congress proposing in their "Big Beautiful Bill"?
Cutting taxes for billionaires—funded by cutting food assistance and slashing health care for millions of people.
It's the same old failed trickle-down economics.
So what are Republicans in Congress proposing in their "Big Beautiful Bill"?
Cutting taxes for billionaires—funded by cutting food assistance and slashing health care for millions of people.
It's the same old failed trickle-down economics.
June 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Donald Trump promised to lower costs.
So what are Republicans in Congress proposing in their "Big Beautiful Bill"?
Cutting taxes for billionaires—funded by cutting food assistance and slashing health care for millions of people.
It's the same old failed trickle-down economics.
So what are Republicans in Congress proposing in their "Big Beautiful Bill"?
Cutting taxes for billionaires—funded by cutting food assistance and slashing health care for millions of people.
It's the same old failed trickle-down economics.
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USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
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Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
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When the answer to the worlds problems is right in our faces
March 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
When the answer to the worlds problems is right in our faces
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GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!
January 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!
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Bill Kristol understands the demands of this moment better than most of the Senate Democrats
"The job of the Democratic party comes in two parts. First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world..."
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Democrats and the Ruthless Aggression Era
America needs a real opposition party.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bill Kristol understands the demands of this moment better than most of the Senate Democrats
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ALERT:
Via U.S. Capitol Police, “During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete.”
Amid Jimmy Carter service
Via U.S. Capitol Police, “During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete.”
Amid Jimmy Carter service
January 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ALERT:
Via U.S. Capitol Police, “During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete.”
Amid Jimmy Carter service
Via U.S. Capitol Police, “During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete.”
Amid Jimmy Carter service
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Gosh, what a fucking surprise. It’s always a con with these guys.
Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts
Musk previously said his Department of Government Efficiency would be able to recommend cuts to the federal budget of “at least $2 trillion.”
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January 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Gosh, what a fucking surprise. It’s always a con with these guys.
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Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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If Canada becomes part of America, where will Desi Lydic pretend to be from when she travels?
January 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If Canada becomes part of America, where will Desi Lydic pretend to be from when she travels?
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 41. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 41. 1/6/25
… Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt of court today by a NY judge for refusing to satisfy his discovery obligations as well as court orders to turn over certain items of personal property to defamatio...
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January 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Today in Politics, Bulletin 41. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Members are voting for Speaker of the House
January 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Members are voting for Speaker of the House
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Sounds fair to me!
January 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sounds fair to me!